SP's MAI Issue No. 22 | November 16-30, 2015 - Military Updates
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MILITARY / REPORT
Developments in Tactical Communications System in the Indian Army
By Lt General V.K. Kapoor (Retd)The Tactical Communications System is a revolution in communication technology and is a quantum jump above the technology currently in use. It will be the Indian Army’s futuristic backbone for a digitised battlefield communications network.
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MILITARY / REPORT
Army’s Tactical Communications System — More delays
By Lt General P.C. Katoch (Retd)Absence of TCS and patchy availability of OFC in TBA has also been adversely affecting trials and fielding of operational information systems even though we have had a fullfledged corps for undertaking field trials.
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MILITARY / REPORT
Prime Minister Modi's UK visit
By Lt General P.C. Katoch (Retd)The two nations also concluded negotiations over a civil nuclear deal that seeks to increase bilateral cooperation in the field of civil and military technology...
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MILITARY / VIEWPOINT
FDI in the Indian defence industry
By Air Marshal B.K. Pandey (Retd)The major global investors seeking to make large investments in the defence sector are unlikely to find the change to be a significant departure from the past
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MILITARY / VIEWPOINT
FDI in Defence - Ease of business?
By Lt. General P.C. Katoch (Retd)We need state-of-theart technology which we can get exploiting our strategic partnerships, some willing if they find it suiting their own national interest given the rapidly changing geopolitical scene
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MILITARY / VIEWPOINT
Terror strikes Paris again
By Lt. General P.C. Katoch (Retd)Although, terror attacks are easy to orchestrate in democratic countries, it is the intelligence that will need to be improved especially by infiltrating the ghettos...
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MILITARY / VIEWPOINT
Myanmar turns a new leaf
By Lt General P.C. Katoch (Retd)Myanmar’s main opposition party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), led by Aung San Suu Kyi, has won a resounding victory, sweeping through Myanmar’s elections with 37 additional seats over the threshold of 329 seats required for majority in the two houses of Parliament.
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MILITARY / SPOTLIGHT
Defence Minister hands over Maareech to the Indian NavyDefence Minister Manohar Parrikar dedicated to the nation the ‘Seakeeping and Manoeuvring Basin (SMB)’ during a function held at the NSTL, Visakhapatnam.
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MILITARY
Indian Navy’s long-range maritime patrol aircraft — Boeing P-8I — dedicated to the nationGiving a boost to the firepower and arsenal of the Indian armed forces, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar dedicated the Boeing P-8I (Poseidon Eight India)...
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MILITARY
Commissioning of offshore patrol vessel ICGS SamarthThe Indian Coast Guard Ship Samarth, the first in the series of six offshore patrol vessels (OPVs) was commissioned at Goa by Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar on November 10, in the presence of Vice Admiral H.C.S. Bisht, Director General, Indian Coast Guard
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MILITARY
Defence Minister launches Army Cloud, Data Centre & Digi-LockerDefence Minister Manohar Parrikar inaugurated the Central Data Centre, Army Cloud and Digi-Locker for the Indian Army in New Delhi on November 9. Complimenting the Army for initiating such steps as a part of the Digital Army programme...
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MILITARY
Indo-Russian Exercise Indra 2015 beginsThe seventh Indo-Russian joint training Exercise Indra 2015 commenced at Mahajan Field Firing Ranges on November 8, 2015, with an impressive opening ceremony that saw the unfurling of the national flags of both countries amidst playing...
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MILITARY
Prime Minister spends Diwali with the Indian Army officers and jawansThe Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited three memorials in Punjab which commemorate some of the spectacular successes of the Indian armed forces in the 1965 war.
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MILITARY
Flood relief operations undertaken by Indian Navy at ChennaiThe well marked low pressure area in the south-west Bay of Bengal has led to incessant rains, primarily affecting northern coast of Tamil Nadu and adjoining hinterland. The city of Chennai too has been adversely affected.
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MILITARY
Shipwright School commissioned as INS VishwakarmaShipwright School, a premier technical establishment and alma mater for Naval Architect Officers, Shipwright Officers and Shipwright Sailors of the Indian Navy, was commissioned as Indian Naval Ship Vishwakarma...
